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Señal Gerona
| Issuer | Catalonia, Principality of |
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| Year | 1479-1516 |
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| Weight | 0.61 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a stylized floral or rosette motif composed of four lobed petals arranged symmetrically around a central boss, with a small cross surmounting the uppermost petal. The design is rendered in low relief typical of hammered copper coinage of the period, with the irregular flan lending a characteristically crude but expressive quality to the strike. No legend is present on this face. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The senyals of Catalonia's principal cities functioned as emergency fiduciary issues, filling the vacuum left by chronic shortages of small silver coinage in the late fifteenth century. Gerona's municipal authorities struck these pieces under sanction from the Crown of Aragon — a relationship that became increasingly fraught once Ferdinand II consolidated power following the union with Castile in 1479.
Cru. 1416 is among the more elusive of the Catalan civic copper issues; Gerona's output was modest compared to Barcelona's prolific municipal production.